The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use ...

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The FDA's Dr. Vinay Prasad said that he disagreed with the agency's career vaccine reviewers about COVID shot approvals.

The new vaccine committee appointed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took minimal action in its first meeting.

Weeks after President Donald Trump took office, multiple government webpages referencing gender and sexual orientation ...

The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in June to stop recommending certain kinds of flu vaccines, a ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

The Vaccine Integrity Project will convene experts to assess the evidence on influenza, RSV, and Covid-19 to equip clinicians ...

That whole meeting was a travesty,” says Fiona Havers, a physician and epidemiologist. After the ACIP firings, Havers ...

Three simultaneous withdrawals—from the World Health Organization, USAID and the Gavi vaccine alliance—represent a ...

Covid isn’t gone, but “it’s just not as horrible as it used to be, and everybody has some immunity to it. You either have been vaccinated and boosted, or you’ve had it, or ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed the expanded use of RSV vaccines for people 50 through 59 years old who are ...